Saturday, December 26, 2009

Cold weather should beware of secretory otitis media

Multiple bring disaster to the ears in winter cold

Recently, in a media work, Miss Ho a bad cold, has been self-medication, but a few days a sudden feeling of hearing loss, ear is always buzzing, the yawning time ears are blistering sound. Miss Ho went to the hospital an examination, diagnosed as secretory otitis media.

"10 years ago, secretory otitis media in our country the incidence rate is very low, but over the past two years, the incidence of a marked increase in admissions every day 3,4 secretory otitis media patients." Xi'an Central Hospital, deputy director of the right ENT doctor said. According to his analysis, the reason will appear in the winter high incidence of secretory otitis media phenomenon is caused by a variety of factors, substance abuse is one of a kind, especially the excessive use of antibiotics in patients with viral, bacterial resistance mutation also enhanced to speed up, leading to bacterial straight into the middle ear, causing inflammation. In addition, the right of doctors to remind parents that a high incidence of secretory otitis media in the five-year-old children,
Many small patients are seriously ill because their parents can come to ignore the result in hospital, and the need to exercise extra vigilance.

Beware of the residual defects and early treatment

ENT Clinic Hospital, 451 Xi, deputy chief physician Zhuomin said: "The autumn and winter of secretory otitis media is one of the more common diseases, and other ear disease is different from it is not due to infections caused by bacteria and other micro-organisms ear acute inflammation, while the is a Drum Room effusion caused by hearing loss as the main feature. hospitals in the treatment of ear disease has accumulated a wealth of clinical experience, while the patented drug fumigation treatment of nerve deafness is unique.

Everyone has to believe "QiQiao similarities." According to experts, the ear through the eustachian tube and nasopharynx interlinked, the eustachian tube can adjust the pressure inside the ear so as to maintain atmospheric pressure balance. In addition, there are defense eustachian tube, clean and functional. Big temperature difference between day and night in winter, often induced by upper respiratory tract infection, inflammation spread to the eustachian tube, the ear tends to form a negative pressure, it will create the feeling of stuffy ears, so patients often feel buzzing ears, the hearing was not good as before. In addition to cold, rhinitis, sinusitis attack, allergic rhinitis, nasopharyngeal space-occupying lesions, children's adenoidal hypertrophy, infections,
Head and neck radiation therapy and other factors can also induce secretory otitis media.

Secretory otitis media If you do not receive timely treatment, the ear is not completely absorbed the liquid would result in tympanic sclerosis, adhesive otitis media, cholesterol granuloma and other secondary diseases, the treatment of these diseases is much more complicated than in secretory otitis media. Secretory otitis media, if not promptly treated, may lead to pediatric patients with hearing loss, serious but will also affect their language development and future learning and life. All in all, winter is the high incidence of otitis media with effusion season, if the ear does not appear to be timely treatment, early detection and early treatment can improve the cure rate and reduce complications, the incidence of sequelae